Iditarod champs face talented rookies
By KYLE HOPKINS (www.ADN.com)
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As thousands of Iditarod fans watch Cim Smyth maneuver the streets of downtown Anchorage today, the Big Lake musher’s eyes will be on his dogs, scanning for the smallest of clues.
“Looking at their gaits really carefully to see who is happy and real sound and smooth, and who is maybe nursing an injury that I can’t really identify,” said Smyth, a 33-year-old veteran who finished fifth in last year’s race.
What he sees during the ceremonial start, an 11-mile trot to Campbell Airstrip, could decide his team’s chemistry for the rest of the 1,000-mile trek to Nome.
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#179 No Agenda For Thursday March 4th 2010
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Kudos to Mr. Hickman for following his heart and not letting the prospect of fortune and fame get in his way. The pressure is so great these days for young people to jump in to a career in pro sports only to become injured and then have their life ruined. It is great to see someone make the tough decision and just say NO to the offers. To me he is a role model for all those who will be placed in the same situation in life. Follow your heart, do what you believe, don’t let the prospect of fame or fortune cloud up what you really feel. /MM
By Matt Hinton
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A prison inmate serving time on sex abuse charges will likely face more time behind bars after attacking a female officer at the Mount Pleasant Correctional Facility. Iowa Department of Corrections spokesperson Fred Scaletta says the officer was conducting routine unit checks at 3 a.m. Monday when she was attacked by 24-year-old inmate Antonio Mikhal Johnson.
“He approached her and stuffed some cloth into her mouth so she wasn’t able to yell or scream for help,” Scaletta said. “He did get her to the floor before a couple other inmates noticed the commotion.” The two inmates pulled Johnson off of the correctional officer who was then able to activate an emergency alert.
The officer, who’s name is not being released, was not physically injured. Scaletta says each officer carries an emergency alarm to summon other security personnel when necessary. “In this particular case, had inmates not heard or noticed the commotion, it could’ve been worse,” Scaletta said. Johnson was convicted in 2008 of third-degree sex abuse in Johnson County. According to online records, he was tentatively set to be released in April 2012.
Scaletta says Johnson has been placed in segregation while the incident is under investigation. Findings of the investigation will be provided to the Henry County Attorney’s Office for prosecution.
##Afscme
The $2.7 million rebate program in Iowa for the purchase of energy efficient appliances is already out of money. The federally-financed program launched Monday morning and the registration for rebates was in such high demand that the phone line and website crashed.
Don Tormey with the Iowa Office of Energy Independence says the appliance rebate processing contractor, Helgesen Enterprises Inc. of St. Paul, Minnesota, had never seen this kind of turnout for any program run by a state or a Fortune 500 company. The contractor was prepared to handle 850 calls and 11,000 web hits per hour.
Iowa households receiving a rebate will get between $100 and $500 to recycle an old appliance and buy a new energy efficient one. “It helps not only the consumer but the retailer who’s selling these appliances, it helps the manufacturer who makes them and it helps the contractor who might be installing them for people,” Tormey said.
Eligible appliances include dishwashers, hot water heaters and refrigerators. People who still want to apply for a rebate will be placed on a waiting list and might receive money if those who registered do not meet or fulfill the program guidelines. Tormey says around Iowans are already on the waiting list.
Find out more here: www.energy.iowa.gov
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#178 No Agenda For Sunday February 28th 2010
HAARP-ing on Earthquakes
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Right now, regarding the health care debate in Washington, all I want is for insurance companies not to be allowed to drop or change your insurance because of pre-existing conditions. Both Republicans and Democrats want this as well, but the Democrats tell us we have to be in favor for this bill and get it passed now to have this.
This, I will have to admit got me kind of hooked, then it hit me. What the hell are they talking about? Not just the Democrats, but the Republicans as well. If they both want the pre-existing condition option, then pass that now. Not the whole bill, just the part about the pre-existing conditions. Or was President Clinton some kind of super hero? He got it passed when he was in office, and it stayed that way until George “screw the little guys” Bush came into office and removed it and added a cap on malpractice suits for his Big Business buddies.
But the main point is, if Clinton could get a bill passed just targeting the pre-existing condition part when he was in office, then it can be done now. So what the “F” is up? Take out all the stuff that both parties agree on, and draft a bill on just those points and argue on the rest later. It can be done, and has been done in the past. /MM 
#diabetes
FDA Gives Novo the Go-Ahead to Market Victoza® in the U.S.
by Patrick Totty
Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk has received Food and Drug Administration permission to begin marketing its type 2 drug Victoza® in the United States.
Victoza, the brand name for liraglutide, is a GLP-1* analog that is taken one a day by injection to help control blood sugar-and in some cases, help with weight loss-in patients with type 2 diabetes.
The drug, which has already been marketed in Europe, is being offered as both a monotherapy and as an adjunct to other diabetes drugs that are taken orally.
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I’ll Get to It… Right After My Nap
by Russell Phillips, Ph
I have always felt that a little snooze in the middle of the afternoon works better for me than a jolt of caffeine. However, the guilt induced by the very thought of sleeping during the day (especially at work) has kept me drinking coffee or tea instead of crashing on my desk and drooling on my keyboard.
But now, I feel a little better about my afternoon break, because according to preliminary investigations at UC Berkeley, it turns out that a siesta can actually reboot the brain and allow for improved afternoon learning.
In the sleep study, 39 college students were divided into two groups – nap and no-nap. The participants were subjected to a rigorous learning task at noon. The task was intended to activate the hippocampus, a part of the brain that helps process fact-based memories. Both groups performed at comparable levels.
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This is from an email I received.
Two illegal aliens, Ralphel Resindez, 23, and Enrico Garza, 26, probably believed they would easily overpower home-alone 11 year old Patricia Harrington after her father had left their two-story home.
It seems the two crooks never learned two things: they were in Montana and Patricia had been a clay shooting champion since she was nine.
Patricia was in her upstairs room when the two men broke through the front door of the house. She quickly ran to her father’s room and grabbed his 12 gauge Mossberg 500 shotgun.
Resindez was the first to get up to the second floor only to be the first to catch a near point blank blast of buckshot from the 11-year-old’s knee crouch aim. He suffered fatal wounds to his abdomen and genitals.
When Garza ran to the foot of the stairs, he took a blast to the left shoulder and staggered out into the street where he bled to death before medical help could arrive.
It was found out later that Resindez was armed with a stolen .45 caliber handgun he took from another home invasion robbery. That victim, 50-year-old David 0′Burien, was not so lucky. He died from stab wounds to the chest.
Ever wonder why good stuff never makes NBC, CBS, PBS, MSNBC, CNN, or ABC news…….. an 11 year old girl, properly trained, defended her home, and herself…… against two murderous, illegal immigrants…… and she wins, She is still alive.
Now that is Gun Control!
Thought for the day:
Calling an illegal alien an ‘undocumented immigrant’ is like calling a drug dealer an ‘unlicensed pharmacist’
I like this kind of e-mail. American citizens defending themselves and their homes.
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